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Jael and Sisera
Luca Giordanoca. 1690
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Woman holding a mallet in her right hand and large pin in her left kneels, facing the viewer. Behind her emerge the arms, shoulders, and head of a man drunk, asleep on the ground, tankard in hand.
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Details
- Title: Jael and Sisera
- Creator: Luca Giordano
- Creator Lifespan: 1634/1705
- Date Created: ca. 1690
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brush and brown ink on cream paper
- Provenance: Giovanni PiancastelliEdward and Mary Brandegee
- Markings: Brandegee stamp verso, in violet ink lower left: Lugt 1860c.
- Inscribed: Inscribed recto in brown ink, upper right: Giordano; recto in graphite, lower left corner of mount: 89; recto in brown ink, lower right corner of mount: Luca Giordano [cut off, illeg.]
- Exhibitions: Memphis, TN - Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, "Luca Giordano in America," April 4 - 30, 1964, no. 30.Sarasota, FL - The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, "Baroque Painters of Naples," March 4 - April 4, 1961, no. 69.
- Dimensions: 27.1 x 20.9 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: "Baroque Painters of Naples," exhibition catalog (Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum, 1961) no. 69 (illus.).Walter Vitzhum, "Neapolitan Seicento Drawings in Florida," Burlington Magazine vo. 103 (July, 1961) p. 317.Michael Milkovich, "Luca Giordano in America: paintings, drawings, prints," exhibition catalog (Memphis, TN: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1965) no. 30 (illus.).Walter Vitzhum, Review of "Luca Giordano in America: paintings, drawings, prints (Brooks Memorial Gallery)," Master Drawings vol. 3 (1965) p. 179.
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